On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:54:30 UTC, "Tim" wrote:

In OS terms it *is* a directory. Within unix filesystems, a directory
is merely a structured file containing the names and inode-numbers of the file's
data + header section. The inode is a structure which further defines
which logical blocks on the disk random bits of the file are stored. So to
open a file, the OS consults the directory-file to find out where the
actual file lives.

So there is a good historic reason why the name came to be, long before
Bill Gates was out of his nappy :-/

And probably before Ken Thompson was out of his diaper!

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